Xbedstead-fastening



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DANIEL BALL, OF SANDY HILL, NEW YORK.

BEDSTEADFASTENING.

Specification of Letters Patent No. 2,562, dated April 16, 1842.

T0 all 'whom t may concern:

Be it known that I, DANIEL, BALL, of Sandy Hill, in the county ofWashington and State of New York, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in the Manner of Constructing the Fastenings for Bedsteads;and I do hereby declare that the following is a full and exactdescription thereof.

The improved bedstead fastenings invented by me I usually make ofcast-iron,

and attach them by screws to the head and `rails of a bedstead, with thefastenings at tached to the rails; the side rail A, is shown in theposition occupied by `it when made fast to the head rail; and the railB, is shown as rot-ated so as to disconnect it with the head rail, or asbeing ready to be rotated so as to attach the parts together; C, C', arethe fastenings attached to the side rails, and D, D', those attached tothe head and foot rails. The pieces C, have a curved offset, as shown ata, which fits into corresponding openings b, in the pieces D. rIhedotted lines c, c, represent the places of holes bored in the posts toreceive round pins of wood, or of iron, on the ends of the t rails,which holes must be made in the center of the curvature of the offset a,and of the corresponding recess ZJ. The head and foot rails haveusually, also, round pins on their ends, as the respective vparts of thefastening adapt themselves the more perfectly to each other when all therails can rotate freely'. i i

Instead of forming the pins which enter the posts on the ends of therails, they may be made on the fastenings themselves. In

this case the top plate of the fastening C, may be made to extend overthe top of the side rail, as shown at C, Figure 2, a pin (Z, being caston it, which is to enter a hole made to receive it in the posts. Thispin must, of course, bein the center of the curvature of theinterlocking parts of the fastenings. By giving a slight slope, or draw,to these interlocking parts, it will be manifest that the joints of thebedstead may be drawn together perfectly close. The fastenings C, may beput on to the head and foot rails, and those D, on to t-he side rails,if preferred.

To give additional stiffness to the bedstead, when put together, I causethe head board, or the head and foot boards, when a foot board is used,to be received int-o me tallic clips upon the posts, where they are heldfirmly by means of tongues and grooves. E, is aI headboard, and F, F,metallic clips attached to the posts and between the cheeks of which thehead board is received; on the inner side of these cheeks there aretongues cast which fall into corresponding grooves made in the headboard, as shown at e, e, in the drawing.

The manner of putting the parts Iof this bedstead together, and ofseparating them, will be obvious from the foregoing description of itsconstruction, the rotating of two of the rails being all that isnecessary in either case, when the pins on the ends of said rails are inplace within the openings in the posts.

Having thus, fully described the nature and operation of my bedsteadfastenings, what I claim therein as new, and desire to secure by LettersPatent, is-

l. The manner of forming the two parts marked C and D, so that an offseton the former shall fit into a recess in the latter, and draw and bindthe parts together by rotating the rail to which the parts C, C, areattached, said rail rotating upon pins which `enter the posts, in themanner set forth.

2. Iralso claim the particular manner of fastening the head and footboards by means of the metallic clips, and the tongues and grooves,arranged and operating as de-

